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The
Durango state governor was on his way to meet with reporters. Before he
arrived, the reporters huddled to decide the question of the moment. It seemed
obvious: Why had a former mayor been arrested the day before in what clearly
seemed to be a political move? "That was the only question," a reporter said later.
"Did the governor have the ex-mayor arrested? Because, behind that move, you
can feel a crackdown coming against the opposition." Yet, this reporter added,
"It was too dangerous to ask. No one was brave enough."

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New York, May 4, 2012--The bodies of two
Mexican news photographers who specialized in the crime beat were found along
with the bodies of a former photojournalist and a fourth individual in a canal in
the city of Boca del Río, in Veracruz state,
according to news reports.

New
York, April 30, 2012--Authorities must immediately investigate the murder of Mexican
journalist Regina Martínez Pérez, determine the motive, and ensure the
perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today.

The
body of Martínez was found in her home on Saturday evening in Xalapa, the
capital of the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, according to news reports. She had been
badly beaten around the face and ribs and had been strangled to death, news
reports said. The state attorney general, Amadeo Flores Espinoza, said in a news briefing that it
appeared her TV, cellphones, and computer had been stolen.

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The Mexican president promised to protect a besieged press corps with a federal protection program, a special prosecutor and new legislation making anti-press violence a federal crime. But Felipe Calderón Hinojosa has failed at nearly every turn. By Mike O'Connor

A founder of Mexican news weekly Ríodoce, Javier
Valdez Cárdenas, traveled to New York in November to receive CPJ's
International Press Freedom Award at our annual benefit dinner. No sooner had
he returned to Mexico than Ríodoce's
website was thrown offline by a denial of service (DOS) attack, in which
multiple computers are used to flood a webserver with fake requests, slowing
down the site so that it cannot serve legitimate requests.